WEAKNESS

Always know This:
Your friend and your enemy
Have one thing in common:
Their weakness is stronger than your strength.

Never underestimate
The strength of a person’s weakness –
The only thing stronger
Is your own weakness in its uniqueness

Because weaknesses know themselves –
They may deceive our strengths
But our weaknesses see through themselves
And become the protector of our strengths

For this is our deep fall:
Our strengths are weak
And our weaknesses are strong
As we continue our Redemption to seek.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

WEAKNESS

The greatest strength
is the strength to look beyond
your own strength
and find in your weakness
strength in other people’s strength.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
#poemsthatmakeyouthink

NATURE OR PROPENSITY

For people who, by nature, are partner-faithful and relationship-loyal (I’m talking Sex here), there exists in their inside a great big Why when they observe how a person who they know really loves his/her partner with all his/her heart can have a sexual interchange with a third party – one time, or for a shorter or longer period, or intermittently – and yet remain totally committed to and in love with their chosen “permanent” partner. Is it a predisposition or a weakness?

It’s like a puzzle, a mystery that defies solution.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

UNDERBRUSH

Carry me
Marry me
Madness pain
Sadness moon
Tidal silence be violent
On me

I have seen it all
Love a lie
Hatred a voiceless bond
Treachery a given
Weakness our one true calling
I have seen enough.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

BRAVE ONE

Your secrets
Give them power over you
When you lose your fear of your secrets
They lose their power over you

No-one is feared more
Than one who says yes I did it, so what?
You can break a warrior’s shell
But you cannot make the warrior fear you as well.

Breathe out, brave one, and live some more
Your weaknesses and your strengths are all you’ve got.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.